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File 815/1917 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying. Beacon at Ras-al-Arz.' [‎113r] (47/56)

The record is made up of 1 item (27 folios). It was created in 11 Feb 1922-14 Jul 1932. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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1922.
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Foreign Office, S.W. l.
8th November, 1922.
No . B. 11946/25/34.
With reference to your letter No. P.3886 of the
14th ultimo regarding certain items of expenditure on the
lighting and buoying service in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , I am
directed by the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston to state, for
the information of Viscount Peel, that His lordship has now
obta.ined the assent of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty*£
Treasury to the charge upon Imperial Revenues of a. moiety
of the proposed expenditure upon the repairs to the lighthouse
tender R.I.M. ’’Nearchus", the repairs to the Quoin Island
lighthouse, and the rebuilding of the beacon at Ras al Arz.
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The Lords Commissioners have not, however,
sanctioned the acceptance of a moiety of the expenditure
involved in the acquisition of a depot at Pao, and the
Secretary of State is addressing them again on the subject
in a letter, a copy of which is enclosed herein.
I am. Sir, &c.,
(Sd) Lancelot Oliphant.
Ihe Under-Secretary of State,
India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. .

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This part contains interdepartmental correspondence relating to the rebuilding of the beacon at Ras-al-Arz, Kuwait (also written in the correspondence as Koweit), following its collapse in February 1922. Later correspondence discusses the maintenance of the light at Ras-al-Arz and how it should be financed. The correspondence also touches on the more general issue of financing lighting and buoying in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

Notable correspondents include the following: the Viceroy of India; the Secretary of State for India; the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; officials of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , the Foreign Office, the Treasury, the Government of India's Marine Department, the Government of India's Department of Commerce, and the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department.

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File 815/1917 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying. Beacon at Ras-al-Arz.' [‎113r] (47/56), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/661/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100079404358.0x00001e> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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